World Spider Catalog

Genus: Pachyballus Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pachyballus variegatus Lessert, 1925

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035108

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Described:

Distribution: Tanzania

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1 specimen (ARTO-0027894; Geneva not mentioned by Lessert, 1925a) -
Syntype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 1m 1f - (Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Pachyballus variegatus Lessert, 1925a: 437, f. 10-14 (Dmf) Original description

Pachyballus variegatus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 77, f. 123-128 (mf)

References

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W., Azarkina, G. N. & Wiśniewski, K. (2020). A revision of Pachyballus Simon, 1900 and Peplometus Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae, Ballini) with descriptions of new species. ZooKeys 944: 47-98. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.944.49921 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-07-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020